Overview
Background
Nat has a scholarly background in literature, creative writing, and media & culture studies. Her teaching into UQ's communication and professional writing programs also draws on many years of experience as a professional editor of academic and business writing.
Nat's research is focused on questions of creative expression, identity, media technologies, and the urban imaginary. This cluster of interests has led to a range of interrelated projects eg the impact of social media on everyday forms of creativity and public space; the role creative writing and speculative fiction can play in human flourishing and community wellbeing projects; the impact of digital technologies on intimacy; the gendered nature of our experiences of urban space and culture.
Availability
- Dr Natalie Collie is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology
Research interests
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cities, speculative fiction, creativity, the public sphere, digital media platforms, embodiment and identity, narrative and representation
Works
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2025
Other Outputs
Streets of your town: Mapping Brisbane's street press
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline, Collie, Natalie, Murray, Richard and Smith, Paul (2025). Streets of your town: Mapping Brisbane's street press. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Queensland State Library/AustLit.
2024
Journal Article
Art rocks: atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline and Collie, Natalie (2024). Art rocks: atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 27 (3), 405-427. doi: 10.1177/13678779231219016
2023
Book
My Future Town
Natalie Collie, Karen Hollands and Isobelle Carmody eds. (2023). My Future Town. Brisbane, QLD Australia: University of Queensland (in collaboration with Western Downs Regional Council).
2022
Conference Publication
My future town: imagining the future of the regions
Collie, Natalie (2022). My future town: imagining the future of the regions. Creative arts and human flourishing symposium, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 1-2 December 2022. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
2020
Book Chapter
Playing with TikTok: algorithmic culture and the future of creative work
Collie, Natalie and Wilson-Barnao, Caroline (2020). Playing with TikTok: algorithmic culture and the future of creative work. The Future of Creative Work: Creativity and Digital Disruption. (pp. 172-188) edited by Greg Hearn. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781839101106.00020
2019
Journal Article
Using innovative teaching practices to inspire critically engaged reading and writing in a neoliberal university environment
Kilner, Kerry, Collie, Natalie and Clement, Jennifer (2019). Using innovative teaching practices to inspire critically engaged reading and writing in a neoliberal university environment. Higher Education Research and Development, 38 (1), 110-123. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2018.1537258
2018
Journal Article
The droning of intimacy: bodies, data, and sensory devices
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline and Collie, Natalie (2018). The droning of intimacy: bodies, data, and sensory devices. Continuum, 32 (6), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2018.1525922
2018
Conference Publication
Reading the Cirrus interface
Collie, Natalie and Kilner, Kerry (2018). Reading the Cirrus interface. The Literary Interface: 2018 Literary Studies Convention, Australian National University, Canberra, 3-7 July 2018.
2018
Book Chapter
New media challenges to the theory and practice of communication engagement
Hearn, Greg, Wilson-Barnao, Caroline and Collie, Natalie (2018). New media challenges to the theory and practice of communication engagement. The handbook of communication engagement. (pp. 515-527) edited by Kim A. Johnston and Maureen Taylor. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119167600.ch35
2017
Conference Publication
Intimate surveillance: Probing users from the inside out
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline and Collie, Natalie (2017). Intimate surveillance: Probing users from the inside out. Cultures of capitalism: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference 2017, Massey University, Wellington Campus Aotearoa New Zealand, 6 - 8 December 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Intimate Infrastructures: Measuring sentiment from the inside out
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline, Collie, Natalie and Hearn, Greg (2017). Intimate Infrastructures: Measuring sentiment from the inside out. Digital Intimacies: Connection and disconnection, RMIT, Melbourne, 13 - 14 November 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Exploring the construction of 'national unity' in Malaysia: Framing analysis of texts and audiences
Ahmad Tajuddin, Siti Nor Amalina, Collie, Natalie and Zhu, Yunxia (2017). Exploring the construction of 'national unity' in Malaysia: Framing analysis of texts and audiences. International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 18-20, 2016. Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences – Web of Conferences. doi: 10.1051/shsconf/20173300011
2017
Conference Publication
Exploring Cirrus: a digital learning platform for engaged reading, analysis, and writing
Kilner, Kerry, Collie, Natalie and Clement, Jennifer (2017). Exploring Cirrus: a digital learning platform for engaged reading, analysis, and writing. Reading and Writing in the Twenty-First-Century Literary Studies Classroom: Theory and Practice, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 6 - 8 July 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Intimate infrastructures: Data and desire in the digital bedroom
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline, Collie, Natalie and Hearn, Greg (2017). Intimate infrastructures: Data and desire in the digital bedroom. At home with digital media, QUT, Brisbane, 2-3 November 2017.
2016
Conference Publication
A writing architecture: Science fiction and the urban imaginary
Collie, Natalie (2016). A writing architecture: Science fiction and the urban imaginary. A colloquium on ficto-critical approaches to a writing architecture, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland, 4 - 5 August, 2016.
2016
Conference Publication
Constructing “national unity”: A framing analysis of Malaysian government advertising
Ahmad Tajuddin, S., Collie, N. and Zhu, Y. (2016). Constructing “national unity”: A framing analysis of Malaysian government advertising. ICA 2016: Communicating with Power, Fukuoka Japan, 9 - 13 June 2016.
2015
Conference Publication
Gothic urban futures
Collie, Natalie (2015). Gothic urban futures. The Popular Gothic, Popular Culture Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, 5 February 2015.
2015
Conference Publication
Monstrous cities in gothic science fiction
Collie, Natalie (2015). Monstrous cities in gothic science fiction. Gothic Spaces: Boundaries, Mergence, Liminalities (GAANZA 2015), Sydney, Australia, 21-22 January 2015.
2014
Journal Article
Using communicative ecology theory to scope the emerging role of social media in the evolution of urban food systems
Hearn, Greg, Collie, Natalie, Lyle, Peter, Choi, Jaz Hee-Jeong and Foth, Marcus (2014). Using communicative ecology theory to scope the emerging role of social media in the evolution of urban food systems. Futures, 62, 202-212. doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2014.04.010
2013
Journal Article
Walking in the city: urban space, stories, and gender
Collie, Natalie (2013). Walking in the city: urban space, stories, and gender. Gender Forum: An Internet Platform for Gender and Women's Studies (42), 1-5.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Natalie Collie is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Writing the Speculative Fiction Series
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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Doctor Philosophy
Distant Poets, Instant Presence: Understanding the Role of Digital Culture in Contemporary Australian Poetry
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea
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Doctor Philosophy
The Untold Story of Australian Farming Women, Climate Change and Social Media
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kelly Fielding
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Master Philosophy
Insight through representation: writing neurodiverse characters as a means to help neurodiverse children and young people gain insight into, and acceptance of, both their condition and themselves.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Newsome
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Doctor Philosophy
Frontlines of Science and the power of place in science podcasts
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Caroline Graham, Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
Sound as a material of the past
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao
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Doctor Philosophy
Metamorphosis: Where Fact Becomes Fiction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Tom Doig, Associate Professor Helen Marshall
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Master Philosophy
Queering Dark Academia within a New Adult Context
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Newsome
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Doctor Philosophy
Metamorphosis: Where Fact Becomes Fiction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Tom Doig, Associate Professor Helen Marshall
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Doctor Philosophy
Tell Me Everything In The Whole World: Modern Gothic Literature, Non-Linear Mnemonic Time as a Lens to Explore Women's Lives
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Helen Marshall
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Doctor Philosophy
Place-driven Narratives and the Gothic Liminality of the Urban Hotel
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Frontlines of Science and the power of place in science podcasts
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Caroline Graham, Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
The Untold Story of Australian Farming Women, Climate Change and Social Media
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kelly Fielding
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Master Philosophy
Insight through representation: writing neurodiverse characters as a means to help neurodiverse children and young people gain insight into, and acceptance of, both their condition and themselves.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Newsome
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Doctor Philosophy
The untold story of Australian farming women, social media and climate change
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kelly Fielding
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Writing the Speculative Fiction Series
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Collaborative documentary photography: a relational and visual mode
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Wasted: Alcohol, shame and book publicity
Principal Advisor
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
The ecofeminist storyteller: Re-turning to women's garden stories in the search for environmental communication and connection
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Timefield: science fiction and the neuroscience of reading
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Framing in Strategic Communications: The Construction of 'National Unity' through Public Service Announcements (PSAs) in Malaysia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Yunxia Zhu
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Inequality as Meritocracy: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Metaphors of Flexibility, Diversity, and Choice, and the Value of Truth in Singapore's Education Policies, 1979 - 2012
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Nicholas Carah
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
The Untold Story of Australian Farming Women, Climate Change and Social Media
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kelly Fielding
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2024
Master Philosophy
Portraying Hong Kong identity beyond the limits of the literary label 'Asian-Australian'
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Newsome, Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Understanding Backwards, Living Forwards: How Authors Write About the Past, Present, and Future in Narratives of Ageing Males.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
The Visitor: Writing the Domestic Uncanny in 21st-Century Australian Literature
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2020
Master Philosophy
'Close to the Bones' (book 1 in the Cretin Park Chronicles), and critical essay 'Nature and Apocalypse in Young Adult Fiction: Promoting an Ecocentric Ethic'
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Watermarks: Science Fiction, Mitigation and the Mosaic Novel Structure in Australian Climate Fiction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Fem-punk Futures: Posthumanism, Gender, and Identity in Contemporary Women¿s Science Fiction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
'The Republic of Birds' and 'Fantastic Cartography: The fantasy map and the portal-quest fantasy'
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Displaced Pieces: The Equivocation of the Real and the Imaginary in Literary Fantasy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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2016
Master Philosophy
Fantastic writing: writing the fantastic into the everyday
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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2016
Master Philosophy
Cities of Struggle: Victorian Gothic and the Hardboiled Pulps in Secondary World Urban Fantasy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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